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Edgser Dijkstra is a giant in the field of software engineering. Over his career he's said a lot about the way developers go about their business, including how developers need bugs. I don't necessarily agree, but there's a lot to think about there.

#friendgineers #dijkstra

https://friendgineers.rosenshein.org/posts/2025/05/07/

Episódio 162 – BASIC.BAS – Parte B

https://retropolis.com.br/2025/04/16/episodio-162-parte-b/

#Podcast #AcornSystemBASIC #Amiga #AMOS #amstrad #arm #AtariSTBASIC #AtomBASIC #BAS #BASIC #BASIC68 #BASIC69 #BASICA #BBCBASIC #CARealizer #Commodore #copyleft #CPC #DarkBASIC #DB2 #Dijkstra #gwbasic #IBMBASIC #LibreOffice #LinguagemDeProgramao #LocomotiveBasic #MallardBASIC #MICROBASIC #microsoft #MSX #MSXBASIC #Picocalc #podcast #QB64 #qbasic #QuickBASIC #Retrocomputao #retrogaming #Retrpolis #s

Edsger W. Dijkstra wrote 'On the Foolishness of "Natural Language Programming"' in 1978
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/647639.760596

Why is it that so many who are discussing this in the context of vibe coding, are willfully omitting that they're discussing a 47 year old essay?

#VibeCoding #Dijkstra #AI #LLM

"na bro just #vibescode 😎"

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd06xx/EWD667.PDF

"yeah well maybe #dijkstra was pointing out how wrong I was in 1979, but it's *different* now."

..in that devin is worse than nothing, and dijkstra's hated "so-called high level languages" did, at least, accomplish the thing, eventually?

It seems, as if #Dijkstra has forseen the new job of "#AI Prompt engineering":

"It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. ...

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🚀 Ah, #Dijkstra, once again reminding us that computers are just too dumb to understand our witty banter. 🤖💬 Apparently, expecting machines to "think" was just another pipe dream for those who find #programming syntax tedious and reality even more so. #Logic and precision? Who needs 'em when you can just argue with a compiler about semantics? 😂
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html #Humor #AI #HackerNews #ngated

Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

#HackerNews #Dijkstra #natural #language #programming #computer #science #programming #languages #Hacker #News #EWD667

Computer Scientists Establish the Best Way to Traverse a Graph #DijkstrasAlgorithmus #Dijkstra #TheShortestPath #Marhs
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-establish-the-best-way-to-traverse-a-graph-20241025/

😂📚 Oh, #Dijkstra, bless his mathematically-obsessed heart, wants us to start #counting at #zero, as if we don’t have enough problems remembering birthdays! Instead of actually simplifying, he gives us four "conventions" that are as clear as a mud puddle. 🚀💥
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html #Humor #Math #Conventions #HackerNews #ngated

Numbering should start at zero: E.W. Dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

#HackerNews #Numbering #Zero #Dijkstra #Programming #History #ComputerScience

"angry-dijkstra" è il nick migliore che mi sia mai stato assegnato :D

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”
― Edsger W. #Dijkstra

»"Perhaps a temporary moratorium on beginning articles with references to software crises or Garmisch might help to push work on the history of programming out of the intellectual eddy in which it seems to be in danger of getting caught. To borrow a formulation with which readers of this literature are surely familiar, we may conclude that without real social histories of computer science and of programming practice the following warning is appropriate: “Quoting #Dijkstra considered harmful.”«

Nikolaus #Wirth considered harmful (for the "letters to the editor" sent-in by Edsger W. #dijkstra

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd13xx/EWD1308.PDF

#GOTO #BASIC #StructuredProgramming

Would you do a premature optimization?

#Dijkstra #software #softwareengineering

𝗠𝗶𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗲𝗻 𝗗𝗶𝗷𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗸𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘂𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗷𝗲𝘃𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘄𝗲𝗻

Vivianne Miedema en Caitlin Dijkstra staan in de basis bij de Oranjevrouwen in het eerste Nations League-duel met Duitsland. De aanvalster en verdedigster maken hun rentree na maandenlange afwezigheden door blessures. Topscorer aller tijden Miedema draagt ook gelijk de aanvoerdersband, omdat Sherida Spitse...

https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/sport/artikel/5495851/miedema-en-dijkstra-keren-terug-basis-oranjevrouwen

#Miedema #Dijkstra #Oranjevrouwen

Edsger #Dijkstra
The Man Who Carried Computer Science on His Shoulders

https://inference-review.com/article/the-man-who-carried-computer-science-on-his-shoulders

#Computerscience #sciencehistory

Today I had an all-day seminar about "Code Critic" at MeWi Uni Bonn. I organized the talks of the students as a symposium. The last talk was about the #GOTO controversy that started in the end of the 1960s with a rant from Edsger W. #Dijkstra and lasts until today. The student's talk ended with a self-made meme.

#BASIC #CCS #CriticalCodeStudies #Paperware #ComputerArchaeology

reading some of dijkstra's manuscripts (especially the early ones) can be a bit of a trip; when he explains something "new", and halfway through you realise he's talking about something that's " basic" nowadays. eg, the concept of variables having types [EDW28]
#dijkstra #edw